Delhi HC upholds Chautala sentencing
Chief of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Om Prakash Chautala was convicted for running a graft-laden scheme to recruit teachers for government institutions when he was in office in 1999-2000.
The judge upheld the sentence of also two IAS officers and others in the case related to the Junior Basic Trained (JBT) teachers recruitment.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court had convicted former Haryana Chief MInister Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala in the JBT teachers recruitment scam.
The court also convicted 53 others in connection with the illegal recruitment of more than 3000 JBT teachers in Haryana.
The CBI court had framed charges against the accused under sections 467 (forgery), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA).
Pertinently, six accused, out of the total 62 accused, died during the trial.
The scam dates back to the tenure of Chautala's tenure in 1999-2000.
The CBI had said that Chautalas had used forged documents to recruit the teachers.
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